With the Indians in the Rockies" is a biography of James Willard Schultz's close friend Thomas Fox. Based on Fox's stories told by the evening camp-fire and before the comfortable fireplaces of various posts. Two boys, one a Black Foot Indian named Pitimakan and a white boy named Thomas are trapped in the Rockies for the winter, Having nothing but the clothing on their backs, they manage to fashion bows and arrows, the makings for creating a fire and the materials for building a shelter to protect then from the six feet deep snow. This a tale of survival, ingenuity and friendship.